When your factory runs only three months a year, you’re always investing in ways to increase the yield from your equipment. That’s why Joey Scarborough, general manager of the cotton gin facility ...

In complex industrial environments, traditional industrial robot control systems are difficult to meet the requirements of automated production for industrial parts sorting and assembly tasks. The ...

As organizations rush to automate factories, warehouses, and other industrial environments, deterministic network connectivity and uninterrupted mobility have become nonnegotiable. An increasing ...

It is definitely an interesting time to be attending an industrial communication protocol meeting. While at the PI International (Profibus/Profinet) General Assembly Meeting this week, I heard from a ...

Profibus and Profinet International (PI) reported Jan. 9 that it’s successfully completed all requirements including a certification test for using Profinet over Ethernet Advanced Physical Layer (APL) ...

A GSD (General Station Description) file is an XML file describing a Profinet IO-Device. The XML-based language is called GSDML (GSD Markup Language). A single GSDML file describes a single VendorID ...